causation
B2CEFR level
50/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
The causal link between the defendant's breach and the claimant's damage.
Even a clear breach of duty is not actionable unless causation is established on the balance of probabilities.
Business noun
A relationship in which a change in one variable actually produces a change in another.
Only a controlled experiment can establish causation rather than mere correlation.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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